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February 6, 2009

Attach Files to Google Calendar Events

Brandon Kraft spotted a new feature in the Google Apps version of Google Calendar: attaching files from Google Docs and photos from Picasa Web Albums to an event. Sometimes you can provide all the details of an event in the description box and you may need to attach photos, presentations and other useful documents.

What I don't understand is why there's no rich-text editor in Google Calendar, where you could drag and drop content from web pages and even images. Hopefully, when GDrive finally launches, you'll be able to access the files stored in Google's Web Drive from any other Google service.

At least I hope so, because one of the features I dream to welcome in G Calendar is something like simple formulas for numbers included in the events, that could calculate periodical flow of expenses/ revenues, for example. I like to have a summary of all my major spendings to keep with budget, and this is important to make it in calendar, not in spreadsheet, because context of events (private and public) is important.

Unfortunately, this feature does not work when inviting non-google users. In other words, the attached file is not automatically shared as viewable upon including it in a calendar event. Now, that would great....

I Make public docs in my documents but it in sharing folder "public on the web" and make every item in this folder sharing 'public in the web" also but no one can view it when I make any items from this folder with this setting attach in my calenderI Use Firefox- WIN XP - Clear Cookies - New VersionKindly Feed me back on maaanteam@gmail.comBest Regards